NAEB newsletter (October 1965)

VOL. 30, NO. 10

WASHINGTON, D.C.

OCTOBER, 1965

Witherspoon Announces
ECS Model Systems

John Witherspoon, director of the
NAEB-USOE Educational Communications
System project, has announced the composi¬
tion of the three model systems set up un¬
der the third phase of the project. He also
said that design operations are moving into
high gear with the start of the new aca¬
demic year.

Oregon is the site of the intrastate model,
with Kenneth L. Warren serving as asso¬
ciate director. The interstate model has been
set up in the Midwest, in cooperation with
the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
(the Big Ten plus the University of Chica¬
go). James S. Miles and John Glade, both
of Purdue University, share responsibility
/"-N for conducting the Midwest project.

The educational resources model is based
in New York City and covers the north¬
eastern Atlantic seaboard. Harold W.
Roeth is in charge of this project, which
will study linking research groups, cultural
and scientific institutions and other non¬
university resources with institutions of
higher education.

Phase III, which began last May, is
scheduled for 18 months, to be followed by
Phase IV, which will demonstrate the sys¬
tem.

SREB to Investigate
Interinstitutional ITV

The Southern Regional Education Board,
under a USOE grant of over $300,000, will
investigate and develop procedures and
techniques for interinstitutional use of ITV.
Duff Browne will head the new project.

These broad areas will be studied:

1. Problems and possibilities associated
with administering interinstitutional use of
TV and related media, including state, in¬
stitutional, faculty, and financial arrange¬
ments necessary to a continuing, regional
effort.

2. Identification of curricular needs in
the various disciplines and development of
procedures for producing instructional ma¬
terials.

3. Procedures for establishing high
media standards, in terms of both conten*
and technical quality.

Rhodes Joins NAEB Staff

Lewis A. Rhodes has joined the NAEB
staff in Washington as assistant director of
the project to improve instructional TV,
set up under a three-year $600,000 Ford
Foundation grant. He was formerly with
the Central Michigan ETV Council and had
recently been named chairman of the state’s
ETV advisory committee.

Lester Nelson is acting director and
Richard H. Bell is associate director of
the ITV project. Bell is also executive di¬
rector of NAEB’s Instruction Division and
acting director of the Individual Member
Division.

Leonard Directs
ETS Program Service

David H. Leonard, former network pro¬
gram manager for TV at KOAP and
KOAC in Oregon, has been appointed di¬
rector of the ETS Program Service re¬
cently established on the Indiana Univer¬
sity campus. The service will collect high-
quality ETV programs and distribute them
to ETV stations.

Grants from the Kellogg and National
Home Library foundations have made it
possible to begin the service—which is aimed
at self-support in six years.

Members of the ETS Program Commit¬
tee—supplemented by Leonard, Chalmers H.
Marquis (ETS executive director), and
James R. Jordan (assistant to the Indiana
University president)—will be responsible
for selecting and screening programs for
the ETS Program Service.

Leonard, who assumed his new post Oc¬
tober 1, has been associated with Oregon’s
ETV stations since 1960. Before that he
was an instructor in telecommunicative arts
at Iowa State University, and had worked
in TV at WMSB, East Lansing; WTTW,
Chicago; WOI, Ames, Iowa; and KMTV,
Omaha.

ITV Center Established

The Indiana University Foundation will
operate the new National Center for School
and College Television, being set up under
a two-year USOE contract of $1,104,652—
largest ever awarded under Title VII B of
the NDEA. The NCSCT will acquire out¬
standing school and college courses and dis¬
tribute them to TV facilities serving class¬
rooms throughout the nation.

This will continue and enlarge the NITL
demonstration begun in 1962 by NET, and
Edwin G. Cohen, former NITL director,
will move to the I.U. campus as executive
director of NCSCT.

After the two-year contract expires, the
center will continue on an increasingly self-
supporting nonprofit basis, with initial as¬
sistance from the I. U. Foundation and sus¬
tained support from course users.

• Kenneth Winslow, coordinator of ITV,
University of California, Berkeley, will op¬
erate a West Coast office for the NCSCT,
on a half-time basis. He will retain his po¬
sition at the university on a half-time basis,
and also will be director for the Western
Radio-TV Association.

NAEB Board to Consider
Multiple Division
Membership

At their meetings during the national
convention October 31-November 3, mem¬
bers of the NAEB Board of Directors will
consider, among other topics, the matter
of institutions belonging to more than one
NAEB division. The NAEB staff has pro¬
posed the following as a change in the By-
Laws : “Licensees of standard educational
broadcasting stations must relate to the
NAEB first in support of the appropriate
NAEB broadcast division, but may elect to
participate additionally in another division
of NAEB if they are eligible to do so.”

This will be the only item involving an
amendment to the Constitution or By-Laws
which can be decided at this meeting.

WUNC-TV Covers Hearings
on Speaker Ban Law

In 1963, the North Carolina General As¬
sembly passed a law prohibiting the facili¬
ties of state-owned educational institutions
to Communist speakers. The law has been
consistently opposed by such organizations
as the American Association of University
Professors, the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools, and by the Univer¬
sity of North Carolina and other institutions
of higher education in the state. The Amer¬
ican Legion and some other organizations in
the state have supported the law.

The 1965 General Assembly authorized a
commission to study the law. The commis-

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sion was set up and scheduled hearings,
which WUNC-TV covered in their entirety
live and without comment. WUNC also re¬
broadcast each session during the evening.
The coverage attracted a great deal of at¬
tention throughout the state, and a number
of commercial stations rebroadcast the pro¬
grams.

NER COVERS GERMAN ELECTION. Willy
Brandt, West Berlin mayor, talks into the
microphone of Jerrold Sandler, NER executive
director, who interviewed key political figures
in Germany prior to the September 19 par¬
liamentary election. Some 60 NER stations
joined together for simultaneous, live broad¬
cast of the election returns which reported
Brandt's Social Democratic Party losing to
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's Christian Demo¬
cratic Union.

Fulbright Awards Deadline Nears

October 15 is the last date on which
candidates may mail requests for applica¬
tion forms for Fulbright awards for 1966-
67. Write the Institute of International Edu¬
cation, 809 United Nations Plaza, New
York, New York 10017. Completed applica¬
tions must be submitted to HE no later
than November 1.

ETV Facilities
Program Actions

In September the USOE announced ap¬
proval of a $68,923 grant to WCET, Cin¬
cinnati, for station expansion. WCET will
enlarge and modernize its studios, adding
new TV equipment, including a second
videotape recorder.

The USOE also accepted applications for
grants for a new ETV station on Channel
21, Pensacola, Florida, and for expansion
of KWCS-TV, Ogden, Utah. Total esti¬
mated project cost is $355,536 and $151,190
respectively.

NER Plans
National Conference

Jerrold Sandler, executive director of
NER, has announced that discussions are
under way with experts in industry, govern¬
ment, education, and the mass media re¬

garding the proposed national conference
on educational radio. He said that at least
two significant position papers will be pre¬
sented at the NAEB convention on Novem¬
ber 1. Plans for such a conference devel¬
oped during the NER Board of Directors
meeting last March at Wingspread, John¬
son Foundation conference center in Racine,
Wisconsin.

News Notes

PERSONNEL

y Thomas B. Petry, former executive di¬
rector of the ETV Council of Central New
York, has been named vice president of the
council and general manager of WCNY-
TV, Channel 24 (call letters and channel
subject to FCC approval, presently WHTV,
Channel 43), Syracuse, New York.
y Marie McCormick, former music assist¬
ant at WUOM, University of Michigan, has
been named music director at WBAA, Pur¬
due University.

y Joe N. Gwathmey of George Washing¬
ton University has joined the radio-TV
staff at the University of Texas as radio
production supervisor and station manager
for KUT-FM.

y Donald N. Wood has left San Diego
State College to become director of ETV
for the Hawaii education department.
y Ron Policy has left Kent State Univer¬
sity after three years as producer-director
in ITV, to join the ITV staff at the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin, and to work on his
Ph.D.

y Martin J. Neeb, Jr., general manager of
WNUR, and recently named University
Fellow at Northwestern University, has
been awarded a research grant from the
university to direct a study of noncommer¬
cial radio stations owned by religious
groups. He will spend a week at each of
some twenty AM stations, interviewing per¬
sonnel and studying the facilities in action.
The work will provide the initial definitive
history and analysis of such stations and
will make a contribution to the history and
folklore of American broadcasting.

Neeb is on leave from his post as direc¬
tor of public relations and associate pro¬
fessor of speech at Concordia Teachers
College, while finishing his Ph.D.
y Gale R. Adkins, director of radio-tele¬
vision research at the University of Kansas,
will spend this academic year in London as
a Fulbright research professor. He will head
a cooperative project in which recommen¬
dations for the use of instructional televi¬
sion will be developed for ten colleges and
universities in the greater London area. He
will also be associated with the Experimen¬
tal Development Unit of the British Na¬
tional Committee for Audio-Visual Aids in
Education.

y William Swisher has been named direc¬
tor of radio broadcasting in the department
of speech and dramatic arts at Eastern
Michigan University, Ypsilanti. He will be
in charge of operations of the new FM sta¬
tion, WEMU, scheduled to go on the air
about October 1. Swisher has been super¬
visor of program operations at WUOM,
University of Michigan.
y Robert C. Glazier has been named gen¬
eral manager of KETC, St. Louis. He was
formerly general manager of WDCN-TV,
Nashville.

^ Saul N. Scher, recent Ph.D. in mass
communications from New York University,
has been appointed director of TV broad¬
casting for the School of Education, Uni¬
versity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
y Recent changes in the radio and tele¬
vision department of the Dade County Pub¬
lic School System (WTHS and WSEC),
Miami, Florida, include: John P. McIntyre,
director of learning resources; Charles
Azevedo, manager of radio and television
operations; George Dooley, supervisor of
community television production; and Mrs.
Mitzi Miller, supervisor of radio and in¬
structional television production.
y Warren A. Kraetzer, executive vice-
president and general manager of WHYY-
TV, Philadelphia, has announced the promo¬
tions of David Kaigler from station man¬
ager of the Wilmington studios (WHYY-
TV) to the newly created position of devel¬
opment officer; and Edward S. (Sid) Shaw,
formerly news director, to manager, oper¬
ations—W ilmington.

Jonathan Lang, veteran newscaster and
reporter, joins the WHYY-TV Wilming¬
ton studios. He has been with WNCH-TV,
New Haven, as newscaster and sportsman.
y Roger J. Houglum, manager and chief
engineer of KRVM, Eugene (Oregon) Pub¬
lic School station, has been appointed
chairman of the division of radio, televi¬
sion, and electronics at the Lane Commu¬
nity College in Eugene. He will continue as
manager of KRVM.

y John R. Morison, recently radio-tele¬
vision producer and director at Ohio State
University, has assumed the duties of pro¬
graming operations manager for West Vir¬
ginia University’s department of radio,
television and motion pictures. He will be
responsible for program planning and for
broadcast productions prepared by the de¬
partment.

y William M. Shimer, formerly with
KNME-TV, Albuquerque, is now program¬
ing and operations manager for KTXT-
TV, Texas Technological College, Lub¬
bock.

^ Larry Laswell has become producer-di¬
rector of instructional television with the
Santa Ana, California, School District ITV
Center, and he will be director of special

BOX SCORE

Total AM stations 4136 (includes 38 noncommercial stations)

Total PM stations 1688 (includes 307 noncommercial stations)

Total TV stations 685 (includes 108 noncommercial stations j

NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬
tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall,
Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial
assistant: Dotty Templeton. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217.

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NEWSLETTER

(Convention Supplement

NAEB to Meet in

Washington,

D.C., October

31-November 3, 1965

Humphrey Can't Come

Vice President Hubert Humphrey has notified NAEB
headquarters that he will be unable to speak at the convention
banquet because of a recently scheduled trip to job corps
camps on the West Coast at that time. Confirmation of his
replacement has not yet been received.

State Department Announces
Communications Briefing

The U. S. State Department will have a foreign policy
briefing October 28 and 29, to which over 200 NAEB radio
and TV station managers have been invited. This is one of
the Department’s semiannual communications media briefings,
and it was especially arranged to fall just before the NAEB
convention. Leading State Department officials, including the
Secretary of State, will participate in the sessions, and plans
are being made for a White House reception by the President
for al'l who attend.

Special Interest Sessions

In order to meet increasing requests for additional spe¬
cialized sessions at the convention, the convention staff, with
help from the division staffs, has organized eighteen such
meetings for this convention, more than ever before. In all
cases, the staff has tried to schedule sessions of related con¬
tent at different times so that a member can participate in all
meetings concerned with his special field.

Meetings planned for this year are:

1. Career Planning and Employment in Educational Broad¬
casting.

2. New Equipment in Educational Broadcasting.

3. ETV Facilities Act Counseling.

4. Report on the National Conference on Educational Radio.

5. Building a Local ETV Program Schedule.

6. Research.

7. Current Problems in Radio Programing.

8. Utilization.

9. Educational Broadcasting and the FCC.

10. Children’s Television Programs.

11. Public Relations & Promotion.

12. Interconnection & Networking.

13. New Federal Legislation & Educational Broadcasting.

14. Cooperative Production at the Great Plains Instructional
Television Library.

15. Professionalism in ETV Production.

16. Copyright.

17. A Survey of International Broadcasting Activities.

18. Educational Broadcasting & the NDEA.

NAEB To Honor Past Presidents

The men who have served as NAEB president will be in¬
vited to a luncheon at the Washington Broadcasters Club on
Wednesday, November 3. On the roster are: Graydon Aus-
mus, Harold Engel, William G. Harley, Richard B. Hull,
H. B. McCarty, Carl H. Menzer, Burton Paulu, Frank E.
Schooley, Seymour Siegel, and Harry J. Skornia.

NAEB Staff Prepares

For Largest NAEB Convention

NAEB Headquarters announces that it expects over 1,000
delegates to attend the 1965 convention—the largest attendance
in the history of the association. Nearly 400 representatives of
Armed Forces TV installations will also be on hand for the
Armed Forces Television Conference which will be held in con¬
junction with the NAEB Convention. NAEBers and military
personnel are invited to attend both conferences.

Exhibit space for the 1965 convention has been filled since
late spring. The 78-booth display represents an increase of 18
booths over the Austin Convention show.

Publicity and promotional activities for the convention
have been stepped up in an effort to reach non-NAEBers in
fields indirectly related to educational broadcasting. This
year, for the first time, the staff prepared a special conven¬
tion invitation which was sent to over 1,000 university presi¬
dents, government officials, foundation heads, engineering
and legal consultants, association directors, international broad¬
casters, foreign embassies, research services, and equipment
manufacturers.

Airlines

Washington, D.C., is serviced by three airports and is
easily accessible by air at any time of the day or night. Wash¬
ington National Airport, which has no jet traffic, is only
about 15 minutes from the city and is most convenient to the
hotel.

Jets will land at either Friendship Airport, which is near
Baltimore, about 45 minutes from Washington—or Dulles
Airport, which is one hour away, in Chantilly, Virginia.
Limousines will take passengers from both airports to the
Washington air lines terminal at 12th and K Streets for $2.50.

Weather

The average temperature in Washington in early Novem¬
ber is about 50 degrees. Daytime temperatures will climb to 58
degrees, and the minimum at night should be about 41. Days
will be fair, according to the Washington climatologist.

REGISTRATION HOURS

Because some NAEB members will be in Washington for
the State Department briefing prior to the convention, the
registration desk will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Sat¬
urday, October 30. If you plan to be in Washington early,
you are urged to register on Saturday afternoon, since you
can then avoid waiting in line on Sunday or Monday.

The registration desk will be located on the Florentine
Foyer of the Sheraton Park Hotel. Registration on Sunday
will begin at noon and the desk will be open until 8:00 p.m.
On other days, the schedule will be as in previous years—
8:30 a.m. to 5 :00 p.m.

Division Day Programs Planned

NAEB division activities will be concentrated on Tuesday,
November 2. Individual Members will meet Tuesday morning,
and division luncheons and business meetings will follow.

• INDIVIDUAL MEMBER DIVISION

To open this meeting, the Board of Directors of the divi¬
sion will report on actions taken on such items as member¬
ship, services to Individual Members, professional interest sec¬
tions, division financing, Placement Service, division staffing
and publications. Following this report, members will be urged
to express themselves on these particular issues, and on the
future role of this division.

Based on the response to a questionnaire to NAEB Indi¬
vidual Members, seven professional interest sections have been
set up. These groups will meet Tuesday afternoon to decide
the kind and extent of future activities which they wish to
undertake.

These sessions mark the beginning of efforts by the divi¬
sion to meet the needs of specialized interest groups. The meet¬
ings planned for this year are: engineering, graphic arts, class¬
room teaching, television teaching, research, production-direc¬
tion, and music direction.

• EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION STATIONS DIVISION

NAEB-ETS will have a business meeting on Tuesday,
starting with a luncheon and lasting the full afternoon. Attend¬
ance promises to be heavy, and issues discussed will be of im¬
portance to all educational television stations.

ETS committees will report, new legislation will be dis¬
cussed, and the new ETS Program Service will be explained.
In addition, information will be disseminated on possible in¬
ternational exchange of ETV program material.

• INSTRUCTION DIVISION

The Instruction Division will have a luncheon Tuesday,
after which members will be free to attend the professional
interest sections of the Individual Member Division from 2:00
p.m, to 3:30 p.m. At 3:30, the Instruction Division will re¬
convene for a session on “The Application of Programing
Principles to Televised Instruction.”

• NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RADIO DIVISION

NER’s luncheon speaker is yet to be announced. At the
business meeting during the afternoon, members will hear
talks on NERNPAC and long-range program needs, the in¬
school broadcasters committee, network membership and the
new fee structure, the present status of live networking, and
the first annual report by NER’s executive director, including
developments in international broadcasting. These speeches will
be followed by general discussion.

Related Meetings

The following organizations will have meetings during the
time of the NAEB convention:

Eastern Educational Network.

Midwestern Educational Television.

Western Radio & Television Association.

International Radio & Television Society.

Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting.

State ETV Authority Associates.

"Viewings and Listenings"

During this year’s annual NAEB convention, there will be
an opportunity for convention attendees to listen to or view
outstanding radio and television programs which have been
produced by members of the NAEB. These presentations will
be from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, and
all delegates are invited to drop in as convenient. Rooms and
program titles will be announced in the official convention
program.

Committees Meet

As we go to press, the following committee meetings have
been scheduled:

Sunday, October 31—International Relations Committee. 3:00
p.m.

Monday, November 1— Breakfast meetings, 7:30 a.m.

Central Committee of the Illinois
ETV Council.

ETS Labor Committee.

ETS CATV Committee,

ETS Program Committee.

Luncheon meeting, 12:15 p.m.

NAEB Research Committee.

Evening meetings, 8:00 p.m.

NAEB Convention Site Committee.
NAEB Awards & Citations Commit¬
tee.

NAEB Rights Committee.

Tuesday, November 2 —Breakfast meetings, 7:30 a.m.

ETS Program Practices Committee.
ETS Copyright Committee.

ETS Interconnection Committee.
NER Network Program Advisory
Committee (8:00 a.m.).

Evening meetings

NAEB Permanent Convention Com¬
mittee, 8:00 p.m.

NAEB Publications Committee, 8:30
p.m.

Sheraton Converts to UHF

The convention hotel, the Sheraton Park, will convert to
UHF following an NAEB staff suggestion that hotel sets be
able to pick up Channel 26, the local ETV outlet. Sets will be
ready to receive Channel 26 when the NAEB meeting begins
on October 31.

Bill McCarter, WETA-TV station manager, has an¬
nounced that his station will carry the banquet address live on
November 3, and that WETA’s mobile van will be at the
hotel during the convention for programing. Plans are under¬
way for David Susskind’s Open End program during conven¬
tion week to cover the growth of educational broadcasting in
the U.S., possibly using NAEB conventioneers as participants.

Women's Activities

As outlined in an early convention announcement, three
tours have been planned for wives during convention week.
On Monday, a chartered bus will take the group to Mount
Vernon and through Alexandria and old Georgetown. The
Tuesday tour is of the White House, Arlington, and the
Smithsonian Institute, and Wednesday’s activities will include
a stop at the Moslem Mosque, the Washington Cathedral, and
an embassy tea.

If there are not enough convention wives interested in
the regular tours, hostesses will be available to help plan in¬
formal tours throughout the city. Those interested in the tours
are urged to stop by the registration desk on Sunday, October
31, for further information.

Professional Football Game

NAEBers in Washington on Sunday, October 31, might be
interested in attending the football game between the Washing¬
ton Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. The game will be¬
gin at 1:30 p.m. Those who want tickets should purchase them
immediately from the Redskin Ticket Office, Redskin Build¬
ing, 9th & H Streets, N.W., Washington 1, D.C. All tickets
are $6, tax included.

Ball State Offers Beginning Speech Students
Chance on Closed-Circuit TV

and in-service telecasts. The center reaches
some 30,000 students and 1,000 teachers
from the third grade through junior col¬
lege.

y Richard W. Russell has been named
to the newly created position of director of
special projects for Buffalo’s WNED-TV.
He will work with community organizations,
schools, and government agencies to deter¬
mine how television may be used to help
provide services in connection with the
Economic Opportunity Act, the Manpower
Development and Training Act, and the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
He comes from WCBB, Augusta, Maine.
y James R. Treble has been awarded the
Loeb award for 1965 by the faculty of the
Television-Radio Department of Syracuse
University. The award is presented to the
outstanding graduate student of the depart¬
ment each year. Treble has been a graduate
assistant to Lawrence Myers, Jr., chairman
of the department, working on a USOE-
sponsored study to determine qualities which
make for effective television teaching. He
taught for four years in the Niagara Falls
schools where he was active in introducing
television to the classrooms.
y Surgery forced Allen Miller, director
of information at Washington State Uni¬
versity, to cut short his sabbatical leave this
summer. He was studying broadcasting in
England, Italy, France and other European
countries.

^y C. M. Jansky, Jr., has retired as chair-
man of the board of Jansky & Bailey Di¬
vision of Atlantic Research Corporation,
but he will remain as consultant. A nation¬
ally recognized radio electronics engineer,
Jansky’s broadcasting experience goes back
to the days when he worked with Professor
Earle M. Terry on 9XM (WHA—“oldest
station in the nation”) at the University of
Wisconsin.

y C. H. Logan, director of educational
broadcasting at North Dakota State Uni¬
versity, Fargo, has been elected vice-chair¬
man of the Governor’s Commission on Edu¬
cational Television. The commission was
created in 1961 to coordinate development
of ETV in the state.

GENERAL

y A monthly program guide carrying com¬
plete listings for WTTW and the new
WXXW, Chicago, began in September.
Marti Ross, WTTW staffer, edits the pub¬
lication which also carries information
about developments at the new headquarters
for WTTW and WXXW.
y WUNB-TV, Columbia, North Carolina,
was dedicated September 15, with full-scale
evening programing beginning that night.
y KDPS-TV, Des Moines, has announced
that public reaction—through cards, letters,
and phone calls—to its first summer of
operation indicated overwhelming approval
of its evening summer programs.
s' ^ October is the target for WHIQ,
Huntsville, Alabama.

y The ETV Council of Central New York
has received a $50,000 grant from the Rosa¬
mond Gifford Charitable Corporation. The

Does putting a beginning speech student be¬
fore a TV camera for one of his first speeches
make him more at ease or still more nervous?

More at ease, says William Tomlinson, asso¬
ciate professor and director of radio and TV
at Ball State University. He has been putting
his beginning students on closed-circuit TV, and
says it helps them gain confidence and they
can see the value in good visual materials.
"They know the camera is coming close in on
the visual aids they have prepared," he says,
"and the impact of their use is very obvious."
Students also realize that visuals with tiny let¬
tering and too many concentration points fail

grant will be used for production and trans¬
mission TV equipment to activate Channel
24, Liverpool. The council will produce 10
in-school series for broadcast over three
commercial stations this fall. Community
programing on Channel 24 will begin in
December, followed by school programing
in February. This will be the fourth outlet
of its kind in New York.
y KQED, San Francisco, will study in de¬
tail its long-range financial needs before
spending any of its $460,000 current allot¬
ment of Ford Foundation funds. Two of
the station’s most urgent needs are a new
plant and additional facilities.
y KRMA-TV, Denver, has begun its an¬
nual campaign to raise money to produce
evening TV programs. As part of the
campaign, the campaign director sent a let¬
ter to local editors, beginning “Last year
the working press proved to be the most
influential media in helping . . . raise funds
for programing . . .” and offering informa¬
tion and pictures for possible feature stor¬
ies. The Colorado governor proclaimed the
fund-drive period “Educational Television
Month in Colorado.”

y During the last week in August, the
Metropolitan ETV Council, Knoxville, Ten¬
nessee, conducted in-service teacher train-

to make good TV material.

Classmates watch the student speaker on
monitors and evaluate him.

On camera in the photo above is Clifford
Robinson, getting his cue to begin speaking.
Dr. Tomlinson and other students are shown at
the left, watching the monitor.

Students give the CCTV speeches in a two-
story TV studio in the communications build¬
ing where ITV classes and other CCTV presen¬
tations also are made. On September I, ITV
at Ball State became part of the new De¬
partment of Speech and Mass Communica¬
tions.

ing via TV. This was the first time TV
has been extensively used for this purpose
in east Tennessee.

y Washington State University, for the
15th year, is providing radio programs to
other stations—currently nine programs on
94 stations in 59 cities in nine states, in addi¬
tion to the Voice of America. The pro¬
grams, which cover a variety of fields in¬
cluding music, science, literature, and sports,
are available outside the state on request.
y The New York City Board of Educa¬
tion and the Television Information Office
will offer “Television in Today’s World,” a
graduate in-service course, to the city’s
primary and secondary school teachers dur¬
ing the fall term of 1965. Roy Danish,
TIO director, said the course is designed
to increase teacher understanding of TV.

INSTRUCTION

y The Alabama ETV Network has dis¬
tributed posters showing the location of the
net stations in the state—and also showing
thumbnail photos of the 29 ETV teachers,
with their names and subjects.
y Chicago’s TV College began its 10th
year this fall, and is on the air 25 hours a
week. More than 60 different courses have
been offered during the college’s nine years.
^ WNED-TV, Buffalo, has expanded its

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in-school schedule for 1965-66 by using in¬
structional courses produced outside of New
York. Each of the new courses has been
screened by local teachers, curriculum ad¬
visors, and administrators. This is the first
time since WNED began instructional
broadcasting six years ago that out-of-
state programs have been used for school
viewing.

PROGRAMS

^ WQED, Pittsburgh, has scheduled a 15-
minute weekly program of news from Con¬
gress. Neil MacNeil, chief Congressional
correspondent for Time magazine, will re¬
port on Sunday afternoons.
y Religious Perspectives premiered over
WHA, University of Wisconsin, last month.
The series, produced by Del Smith and di¬
rected by Bob Leu, examines religion on the
campus.

y WFSU-TV, Tallahassee, recently re¬
ceived an award for a program on alcohol¬
ism, “The Fourth Problem.” The four-
part production came about when the Flori¬
da Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center request¬
ed “spot” time from WFSU. Program
Manager Duane Franceschi suggested the
series, which was written and directed by
Ron Whittaker and produced by Dick
Heuer.

y Two University of Chicago law profes¬
sors comment on 10 U. S. Supreme Court
opinions on Conscience of a Nation, a TV
series being broadcast over several NBC
stations.

y Eastern Educational Network stations
will soon broadcast the World, Theatre se¬
ries. Prints of the films for the seven one-
hour programs plus funds for promotion
were granted to EEN by Standard Oil of
New Jersey.

y KWSC-TV, Washington State Univer¬
sity, presented during registration week a
series of three freshman orientation films,
dealing with study habits, improving read¬
ing skills, and motivation for study. The
presentation was part of an effort to smooth
out the student’s transition from high school
to college.

y WHA, University of Wisconsin, is fea¬
turing Wisconsin history in a series of ra¬
dio programs this fall. The hostess inter¬
views curators and presidents of the histori¬
cal societies and museums that are spring¬
ing up all over the state.
y After a three-year absence, The Story¬
teller will return to WTTW, Chicago,
through a grant from Marshall Field and
Company. Val Bettin appears in the title
role, A1 Binford is executive producer, and
Larry Unes is producer-director.

^ “Child of the Future” was broadcast
last month by CBC-TV; the program re¬
viewed the use of teaching machines in the
U. S. and Canada, and included some pro¬
found observations by Marshall McLuhan.
y WTTW, Chicago, is presenting prize¬
winning films from the 1965 American
Film Festival. Subjects range from the
isolated Hutterite sect to the origins of
World War II.

Needs Info on

Radio Production Courses

Miss Julia James, 72 Warwick Square,
London S.W. 1, England, is looking for
information about running courses for
teachers on educational radio production
and techniques. Any NAEBer who is will¬
ing to share his experience in organizing
educational radio production courses can
write her at the above address.

Here and There

• In Iowa, modern math experts are lec¬
turing by telephone to more than 2,000 par¬
ents and elementary school teachers from
bases at Cedar Falls and Chicago and Ur-
bana, Ill. A phone hookup permits ques¬
tions.

• The SMPTE will meet in Montreal
October 31 through November 5 this year,
simultaneously with the NAEB convention
in Washington, D.C.

• During a year-long survey, the Ameri¬
can Library Association found that most
of the nations’ libraries are ill housed, ill
equipped, poorly staffed. The association
said 4.3 billion dollars is needed to bring
libraries up to and to maintain minimum
national standards.

Recordings and Films

• “Know Your Heart” is the second radio
series of ten two-minute spot announce¬
ments released by the National Heart In¬
stitute. The series is written in nontechnical
language and covers such subjects as
strokes, rheumatic fever, emphysema, and
varicose veins. The first series of programs
was requested by almost 1200 radio stations
throughout the U. S. The spots are free
from the National Heart Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
20014.

• The Heart Institute has also produced
a 28-minute film, cleared for television,

called “Heartbeat.” Information on this is
available from the Public Health Service
Audiovisual Facility, Communicable Disease
Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.

• A 50-minute dramatic reading of the
play “Dr. Faustus” has been recorded by
the Academic Album Company, P. O. Box
1091, Denver, Colorado 80201. A release
from the company says that many FM sta¬
tions have reported enthusiastic listener re¬
sponse.

Publications

• The University of Illinois Press has
published a second edition of Dan Lacy’s
book, Freedom and Communications. There
is a 15-page epilogue dealing with the pe¬
riod since 1959 when the lectures which
make up the book were delivered. This edi¬
tion is paperback, sells for 95 cents.

• Educators and librarians may obtain
free reprints of two articles from Educators
Progress Service, Randolph, Wisconsin
53956: “Listening—How Much and to
What,” by Walter A. Wittich, and “To¬
wards More Effective Learning and Teach¬
ing,” by John Guy Fowlkes. These reprints
are from the 1965 editions of Educators
Guide to Free Tapes, Scripts, and Tran¬
scriptions and Elementary Teachers Guide
to Free Curriculum Materials respectively.

• Subject Collections in European Li¬
braries covers some 6,000 libraries through- ^
out Europe. Compiled by Richard C. Lew-
anski, the information is classified accord¬
ing to the Dewey Decimal system. $25 from
R. R. Bowker Company.

• A 28-page report, “Microwave Com¬
ponents for Communications Systems,” is
available from Airtron division, Litton In¬
dustries, 200 East Hanover Avenue, Morris
Plains, New Jersey.

• “Educational Communications System:

A Perspective” is the edited transcript of
the ECS advisory committee meeting of
June 4, 1965.

PLACEMENT

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

(For information, write Miss Yasmine Mirza, Placement Service, at
the NAEB in Washington. In order to be considered through these
channels, the reader must be an Individual Member of the NAEB,
with credentials on file with the NAEB Placement Service. Non-mem¬
bers can save time by sending the $10 annual dues and $10 Place¬
ment registration fee at the time of inquiry.)

ETV station in the northeast needs chief engineer, assistant station manager,
program manager.

Western university has immediate opening for station manager for 10-watt
FM station. Position currently classified as technical; future plans for title
change from station manager to director of radio-television. Candidate with
some experience in ETV preferred. Salary range: $6l32-$7404.

Television transmitter operator needed at southwestern TV station. Full power,
VHF (RCA TT - 50 - AH). Salary $5200.

Immediate opening for continuity writer and assistant in programing. Salary
commensurate with experience and ability. ETV in major Midwest city.

Large northeastern ETV station seeks a creative experienced producer-director.
Excellent opportunity for right man. Must be capable of handling major proj¬
ect work. Right experience will be a factor. Only experienced applicants con¬
sidered. Station is an equal opportunity employer. Salary $8000.

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